Sándor Szalay (figure skater)

Sándor Szalay ( born June 6, 1893 in Budapest, † April 5, 1965 ) was a Hungarian figure skater, who started pair skating.

He joined in pairs skating together with Olga Orgonista to. Together they were in the years 1928 to 1930, the first Hungarian champion in pair skating.

1930 in Vienna and 1931 in St. Moritz were Szalay and Orgonista also the first European Champion in pair skating. They noted both times their compatriots Emília Rotter and László Szollás to second place.

Had her first appearance at the World Championships Szalay and Orgonista 1929 in the domestic Budapest. They won there the bronze medal behind the two Austrian couples Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser and Melitta Brunner and Ludwig Wrede. In their next world championship is they were in Berlin in 1931 Vice World Champion. They were subject to extremely tight their compatriots Rotter and Szollás that they had recently conquered yet at the European Championships. A year later, Szalay and Orgonista denied their last World Championship in Montreal, Canada. They finished in fourth place. The same result they achieved in the same year at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid.

Results

Pair of running

( with Olga Orgonista )

1929 World Figure Skating Championships 1931 World Figure Skating Championships 1930 European Figure Skating Championships 1931 European Figure Skating Championships 1932 World Figure Skating Championships Winter Olympic Games Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Idi Papez Karl Zwack Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Ingo Steuer Oksana Kazakova Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Maxim Trankov
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